iOS 8 won’t be released until next week – but your iPhone can look fresh and new right now

It was hardly the biggest of the many announcements Apple made during Tuesday’s press conference, but the company confirmed that it will finally release iOS 8 to the public on Wednesday, September 17th next week. iOS 8 represents a huge upgrade for Apple’s mobile platform, adding tons of new functionality and tweaking hundreds of features that already existed in iOS 7.1.

Courtesy of graphic designer Jason Zigrino and Apple blogger Benjamin Tourin (via Zinx), each of the 15 new iPhone wallpapers found in Apple’s iOS 8 software has been extracted from the iOS 8 GM and made available for download.